Vladimir Putin assumed the Russian presidency in an interim capacity in 2000. He made a lot of promises. Two decades later, the spy-turned-strongman is still at the helm of Kremlin politics.

Following our earlier look ahead to 2020, four more commentators, including the editor of This Week in Asia, offer their predictions for the trends likely to impact the region in the year ahead.

A court in Saudi Arabia has sentenced five people to death for the killing of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi, who was murdered in the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul last year by a team of Saudi agents

Boeing's Starliner crew capsule is returning to Earth this weekend after its first test flight, its mission cut short by an improperly set clock on the spacecraft. Ground controllers are aiming for a Sunday morning touchdown in the New Mexico desert

Chinese President Xi Jinping on Monday expressed concerns over rising tension be...

U.S. electric vehicle maker Tesla Inc and a group of China banks have agreed a n...

Police clashed with demonstrators in the heart of Hong Kong’s financial district on Sunday as protesters rallied in support of Uighurs in China,

AI programme beats pros in six-player poker An artificial intelligence programme has beaten a group of top poker players in six-player Texas hold 'em -- a breakthrough for the technology. WASHINGTON...

“We have to, at this moment, have a check on this president,” said Representative Ro Khanna, Democrat of California and the author of the Yemen amendment. “There is no priority higher than stopping wa...

Image copyright Reuters Image caption The new tax would target huge - mostly American - technology companies US President Donald Trump has ordered an investigation into France's planned tax on tech g...

It is basically converting a modified 747 called Cosmic Girl into a rocket launcher, which will be able to take off from conventional airports. This means it will avoid bottlenecks at spaceports and b...

TOKYO — The National Astronomical Observatory of Japan has expressed concern that satellites orbiting the Earth are having a negative impact on astronomical observations. In a statement released last...

source Josh Edelson/AFP/Getty Images Facebook published its annual diversity report on Tuesday, showing only modest gains in its push to bring more women and people from underrepresented groups into ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Oil futures hit a six-week high on Thursday as a storm built in the Gulf of Mexico, threatening crude output, while an incident with a British tanker in the Middle East highlighted o...

A nine-metre humpback whale tangled in fishing gear off the West Australian coast has been rescued. The whale, which was about one nautical mile offshore just south of Perth, had rope wrapped twice a...

The Bishop of Newcastle, the Right Reverend Christine Hardman, will make public the Church's stance on gender transition within marriage The Church of England is to tell husbands and wives they are f...

Venezuelan security forces are sending death squads to murder young men and stage the scenes to make it look like the victims resisted arrest, the United Nations says in a report issued by its human r...

It’s not yet clear when Samsung will release its next wearable, the Galaxy Watch Active 2, which some chatter suggests could launch in tandem with the Galaxy Note 10 unveiling next month. However, we ...

Sony’s “Spider-Man: Far From Home” is dominating North American moviegoing, soaring to $27 million on Wednesday — a record for a Marvel Cinematic Universe film. The 23rd Marvel movie, starring Tom Ho...

In the latest update shared by Facebook, it was confirmed that Instagram, WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger are all facing the same photo glitch. This includes not being able to store data properly acr...